[Surely! Because he would be having a much harder time handling this without someone else around that he's familiar with and also understands the trials and tribulations of what all of this brings.]

I'm fairly certain my God would smite me down were I to ever entertain such an idea. [He's joking, clearly, but he does at least respect the Blade and their teachings, or what he knows of it, same thing with a different name, more or less. It's much easier to think of things that way.]

Hopefully so. There is many a temptation and sinner amongst us, tempting us at every twist and turn whether they know what they do or not. It's rather unnerving but so to will we come through this fire and trial strong and better than we were before.